It’s not about making money for themselves or the company, but making a difference in the lives of others.

The great ones realize that what you did yesterday guarantees you nothing today. The challenge is too many people are busy celebrating yesterday's success.

You gotta do common things, uncommonly well.

Decisions are the frequent fabric of our daily design.

We should all strive to be extraordinary, and that starts with a focus on our own capabilities instead of those of our opponents.

There is a strong sense of understanding, appreciation, shared responsibility, and trust that unites and motivates the team to work together.

Great companies connect to the heartstrings of their employees to make their purposes known.

We all think that the answer to everything is to add more and to do more and to try more. Sometimes you have to have the discipline to say no and to believe in the process that you have established.

In the end, leadership comes down to consistency and strong, confident action upon which the team can rely - and this doesnt mean imposing a bunch of rules.

When leaders of a professional team perform a scan, they examine the trends dominating their customer demographics, education, government policy, and especially their competition.

One way Great Teams can connect their team members together is through the glue of mentoring.

When there is not a trace of worldly love that is called ‘absolute ultimate love’ [paramarth prem]!

It's a season of life, if your granted peace, freedom and you got the right person to love.

I love giving gifts. It's almost like I don't open my gifts until, like, three days after Christmas 'cause I want to give everyone else their presents.

Appearances are often deceiving.

The habits of the West in terms of consumption.

I feel helpless, hopeless, too low to call out, too weak to think. Impotent tears dribble down.

I break bones, I break people, I break spirits!

So much of our lives depends on accidents of birth, time, and geography. This haunts me. In some lives, few "or"s are possible. The pain of that is behind the second stanza of this poem.

America is now the dominant force and the only countervailing force is Europe.

I think back a little bit when President Bush was elected President and what kind of economy he inherited from the Clinton administration. The economy was going down. It was not doing well.